I've been struggling to get on the bike and to the pool this month, but this week, I managed to sneak in a session of each. It felt good to do both so why don't I make the time or effort to do it every week?
The running is easy when I have people to do it with. The biking, back when I lived in Stansbury, was easy when I had people to do it with. The swimming was fairly easy when I had people to do it with. It's been a shift lately because I don't have anyone to bike with and I don't have anyone to swim with and it's so, so, so easy to put it off.
Hillary and I ran 10 miles on Saturday. We use to be able to throw down 10 miles on a Thursday morning, but now it's the long run. I'm looking forward to when 10 miles doesn't seem so daunting. While we were running we were discussing how we can only do the best we can do. Right now, our focus needs to be on running because we have a marathon in May. The other stuff will be gravy on top and right now we're figuring out where we were faltering in fitting it into the schedule. The nice thing is that schedule will change over the next two years as kids go to school and time constraints loosen up a little bit. It will be nice when the weather changes and biking can be moved outside again. It's easier to fit it in when it's in the basement, but it's mentally hard to do it. I spend a lot of time rationalizing why I can't, or shouldn't, or don't have to, do it today.
Rationalizing will kill a lot of dreams.
My goal is to stop and really think about the real reason why I'm not doing the activity. Is it because I'm really tired? Is it because I don't have the time? Is it because I don't want to? And then address those problems instead of just rationalizing them away.
This fine tuning bit is not for sissies.
Here's to another week of figuring it out.
The running is easy when I have people to do it with. The biking, back when I lived in Stansbury, was easy when I had people to do it with. The swimming was fairly easy when I had people to do it with. It's been a shift lately because I don't have anyone to bike with and I don't have anyone to swim with and it's so, so, so easy to put it off.
Hillary and I ran 10 miles on Saturday. We use to be able to throw down 10 miles on a Thursday morning, but now it's the long run. I'm looking forward to when 10 miles doesn't seem so daunting. While we were running we were discussing how we can only do the best we can do. Right now, our focus needs to be on running because we have a marathon in May. The other stuff will be gravy on top and right now we're figuring out where we were faltering in fitting it into the schedule. The nice thing is that schedule will change over the next two years as kids go to school and time constraints loosen up a little bit. It will be nice when the weather changes and biking can be moved outside again. It's easier to fit it in when it's in the basement, but it's mentally hard to do it. I spend a lot of time rationalizing why I can't, or shouldn't, or don't have to, do it today.
Rationalizing will kill a lot of dreams.
My goal is to stop and really think about the real reason why I'm not doing the activity. Is it because I'm really tired? Is it because I don't have the time? Is it because I don't want to? And then address those problems instead of just rationalizing them away.
This fine tuning bit is not for sissies.
Here's to another week of figuring it out.
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